Becoming a “consulting” architect In the spring of 2015, after years working in technology, most recently in the fast-paced mobile sector, I joined the Government Digital Service as a technical architect and I blogged about it at the time.
Meet Dan Appelquist. Dan’s just joined GDS to head up our work to build a community of practice around the use of (and contribution to) open standards in software projects across government. Here’s why that matters. What standards give us …
At GOV.UK Verify we recently encountered a technical performance issue: a memory leak problem with our application that is responsible for any end-user facing functionality. We’ve been running extensive performance testing as we prepare for going live next April and …
On GOV.UK Verify, we’ve adopted a micro-services approach to our architecture
I’ve been working on a prototype of what a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government might look like, as we wrote about in a previous post.
Last month we blogged about registers: authoritative lists you can trust. To recap, a register is a canonical source of data, with a clearly-defined custodian.
Recently we talked about resizing checkboxes and radios; I thought I’d give a quick update as to what happened next.
As the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to take on new challenges, we're looking for a number of developers and web operations engineers to join us. The successful candidates will work across the full range of platforms and services that …
As a junior developer, I’m encouraged to spend 20% of my time at GDS building a project of my choice to support my learning needs - as long as it’s useful to the organisation.
At GDS we’re always looking for ways to make our pages easier for anyone to use. One particular area that comes up in user research is the difficulty people have with clicking on small checkboxes or radio buttons in forms. Our …
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